April 2, 2009
As promised, here is the translation of the song Belle from the musical Notre Dame de Paris and also from Starmania.
The YouTube video has, handily, the English translation as subtitles. My own is slightly different in that, for the purposes of study I don’t need to be poetic so I can stay slightly closer to the literal meaning. For example “je sens l’enfer s’ouvrir sous mes pieds” is translated in the video as “I feel the devil take me by the feet” which is more poetic than the more literal translation of “I feel hell open beneath my feet” but perhaps not as useful for our purposes.
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April 1, 2009
This is a very famous song from the 80s – not particularly up my street but will be nostalgic for some. Ella, elle l’a “Ella, she has it” was performed by France Gall and written by her husband, Michel Berger, as a tribute to Ella Fitzgerald. Michel Berger also wrote the music for Starmania in which France Gall starred. I’ll be posting the translation of another song from Starmania – the song Belle, shortly.
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